A cyclic frequency tracking loop for wideband spectrum sensing and FM Demodulation

Abstract

A cyclostationary feature-based wideband spectrum sensing is proposed in which cyclic frequency offset is considered. The received signal passes through a rough and flexible filter which its effective band tuned to a specific part of the received signal spectrum. It belongs to a target signal, which possibly exists in the received signal. Some cyclic frequencies of the target are employed to derive the normalized least mean square algorithm that estimates the filter output from its frequency shifted samples. Based on the weight estimate's norm, the algorithm is tuned to find the accurate cyclic frequencies. If it succeeded, it means that the target signal is present. On the other hand, a complete search without major weights estimate means that the target signal is absent. In addition, the overall system, named cyclic frequency lock loop can be reformed as a demodulator for sinusoidal frequency modulation signals. The method is very easy to implement and has less computational complexity comparing with its other spectrum sensing counterparts. Simulation results validate the efficiency of the proposed method. © 2016 IEEE.